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M. Graham Gouache 5 Color Set
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
- Hello everyone! Today we are going to be taking a look at M. Graham gouache. This brand focuses on providing high quality, lightfast paints. Their range consists of 35 highly pigmented colors, none of which have added fillers or chalk so that artists can control the opacity and amount of white added to each mixture themselves. So, are a few of these paints worth investing in over large sets of craft-quality gouache? Let’s take a look!
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** Timestamps **
0:00 Introduction & M Graham Overview
2:49 Palette Set Up & Convenience Mixes
6:44 Fresh Paint Swatches
7:41 Dried Paint Swatches
12:10 Swatch Comparison
12:49 Painting Process & Discussion Begins
15:11 Thoughts on M Graham Gouache
18:52 Final Thoughts & Finishing the Painting
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I personally really liked your rhino gouache painting because I love painterly strokes! Dont beat yourself too much about it Denise!
I am glad you liked it! Rhinos are always fun to paint for me :)
Sarah Burns is another gouache artist. I’ve learned so much from her. I’m a watercolor artist first. Once I figured out how to use gouache, I love it. That wasn’t the case when I first started with that medium. It’s a learning curve. Hope you feel better! Take care of yourself and come back when you can.
Thank you for the recommendation!
Sarah Burns is the queen of gouache landscapes!
I did the exact same thing recently. I have tried a handful of other gouache brands but just can't get used to working with tubes, it slows me down! It's frustrating to waste paint and hard to rewet later (Specifically I tried W&N, SO HARD TO REWET!) I finally settled on M Graham, got the five color set, mixed some secondaries, let it all dry, and was thrilled with the rewettability. So I then bought another handful of earthtones and some secondary colors and I let all the colors dry in the palette. I just squeeze out fresh white when I need it and I'm very happy with this arrangement. Also I find M Graham generally extremely affordable as I'm located in the US. I just love that company, it's become my primary brand.
I only ever had a tube of white W&N gouache for highlights, but man, it dried hard as a rock on my palette if I didn't wipe it off my palette before letting it dry! I've been much happier with Schmincke, M. Graham, and Mission.
I didnt know there was a gouache police! :D I hope you recover quickly. You know I know how it is..it is truly endless
No official police, just RUclips commenters haha. Thank you for the well wishes. I hope you have a good break in there too!
I would also say that instructors/teachers influence the attitude towards gouache as well. My first watercolor class had a section on gouache, it was in the curriculum and the teacher was quite disparaging of it as he was a "fine" artist and considered gouache just for commercial use. This was in the 1980's not that long ago!
This is such a relaxing and beautifully filmed video.
Thank you, Lindsay!
My opinion is that the correct techniques are the ones the artist wants to use not what everybody else says to use.
I'm in the gouache market right now and learned more from your "mistake" commentary than I have from people who've used it for ages and didn't talk about the difficulties. Appreciation for your commentary! 🥰Cheryl
Great video😀 I've just began dipping my toes in gouache. So this was very helpful.
Don't worry about the channel. Most of us will be here, when you get back. I hope you feel better soon. 💜
I'm glad you mentioned you didn't enjoy the ""correct way of working with gouache"". Personally, me neither. I think Arlesha also works thickly most of the time and her gouache work is just as great as her watercolor work imo. Don't give up on gouche, just have fun with it
I just got out of school and you just posted this !!
Edit: I just finished the video and I hope that you will recover quickly. Don't fell forced to continue creating content if you aren't feeling well. We would perfer if you recover quickly .
Thank you, Timothy!
It’s obvious that you put a lot of work in these videos and your research is always so thorough! You’re right to take a pause when you need it, it’s important to care for your body, your mind and your heart. Your content is much appreciated and I hope you get the well deserved down time you are wishing for !! Much love and support from Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you so much for your kind words and support!
Hello Denise, I think it’s important that you paint the way you want to. People need to realize that art is an expression of you (and themselves separately) and nobody can tell you that you are doing it wrong. That’s old thinking and thankfully that is slowly being removed. As long as you are happy, that’s all that matters. I’d love to see another gouache video where you just lather that paint on! Hope you are doing well❤️
I like to do gouache really thickly, just once, with no overlapping. If things weren't opaque enough, the same colour was made, and repainted. It becomes more like colouring in a design. I learnt it this way from a senior colour and design teacher who gave us lots of exercises. Not sure what is right, but it is what people get used to ........
I didn't think you would get a purple from the red and blue in this set. Surprising.
Hey Denise, I hope whatever you are going through health wise, that you will come out stronger and healthier soon. I am unwell tonight, so I don't like to be so sick that I can't work, or too tired to write or paint, so I know how it feels.
Keep painting, when you feel up for it, even if it isn't for us....
In kindred spirit
Eliza in Dulwich Hill, Australia xx
Thank you, Eliza. Sending you some spoons as well!
I do hope that you will have a healthier year! I have a difficult time with thinking that gouache is a permanent medium. When I was taught to use gouache it was for newspaper and circular ads. The ONLY gouache painting that was “saved” were the comics! I never knew why. The rest were thrown in the trash right after the “photo” plates were made, even the fashion painting plates, once sent on for reproduction they ended up in the trash bin! I like Turner gouache, mostly because of the color selection and I have painted thick and thin either works well if you take care of your surface. Thank you for sharing another amazing art experience with us, you get to the heart of the matter and continually knock our socks off! I am glad that you are able to create your art and videos at this time. Please be careful and get yourself healthy, this is important for your future life as well as your career. Have a lovely day thank you for the wonderful video, you brighten so many peoples days. 😊
Thank you as always, Michael. It was really interesting reading about the history of gouache and how it went from fine art to reproduction uses only and then somewhere in between. Thank you for the well wishes. Fingers crossed!
Lately I've really been enjoying experimenting with gouache using just a tube of Schmincke's white gouache and mixing it with my White Nights watercolors. I have a jelly gouache palette but it's large and not as easy to just pull out and play around with. I have found that I do have more success with the underpainting and thin layers method, but I too am impatient to start building up thicker, more opaque layers 😅
Fun! That's the premise of the Mission Hybrid paints as well - just add white! :) I have learned a lot about underpaintings (especially from Mary) and that I am grateful for. I'm sure I'll eventually find other techniques I enjoy :)
I’ve been playing with gouache a lot lately, and was surprised at how much water I can add and still achieve amazing opacity! I like to call it the melted ice cream consistency, where it spreads so smoothly and still has amazing coverage. There are so many ways to use gouache (any medium, really), and I think unless you’re running into a specific hurdle you’re probably doing it right. I’ve struggled with the mechanics of mixing and keeping a workable palette. It gets so messy so fast. So I understand that sometimes it’s purely the mechanics of a different medium that make it less enjoyable than our comfort zone materials. Thanks for the great video!
I prefer the thicker gouache look from your schmincke video and you have inspired me to try gouche paints again without strictly following the "traditional" gouache painting rules this time! Painting those rhinos and peaches looked so fun!!
I looooooove m.graham gouache because I love using them with watercolors. They’re beautiful to render once my watercolor layer is set. I’ve been building up my small collection a few tubes at a time and it’s been a joy to get to know the brand that way.
With m.graham, I’ve put dots on a ceramic dish and they don’t crumble or crack and rewet beeeeeautifully! If people are keeping it in the studio, I recommend using a sectioned off ceramic something instead of plastic.
Loved how you mixed everything! And a beautiful review as always!!
So sorry that you’re going through health issues again but please take your time and hoping you’re able to see improvements soon. Biggest positive vibes!!
I forgot to audibly mention it, but that red stains like crazy, so ceramic would be much helpful haha. Thank you for your support, Farly!
@@InLiquidColor YES!! I tried to put a few blobs in my airtight palette when I first got them a couple of years ago. SUPER staining reds. They cracked and crumbled so bad as well, which is why I decided to try to put little blobs on the ceramic. Then I noticed that they kept better on my little ceramic daisy plate. Through experimentation....we learn. Personally, I don't think anyone should gatekeep people for figuring out their own journeys with new mediums and proud of you for finding your own way of using them!
I really loved seeing your palette setup and the painting is beautiful! From what I've heard, M Graham is less likely to crack on thicker applications but may result in some shinier spots due to the honey. Can't find out unless you go wild and experiment 🙂 Wishing you well and please take the time you need (but looking forward to future content whenever you are ready to make more).
Thanks so much! I appreciate the kind words :)
Great video, loved the pre mixing colours, never thought of that. I use this set alongside a cheap set 12 for the price of 1 mg. I have the same cracking and they don’t fall out. Tried glycerin which helped slightly. The cheap ones really shrink and crack more. Stick with mg if you got the money. The lovely Rhino looked sad. I know don’t anthropomorphise. Thanks Denise.🇬🇧
Wishing you strength as you deal with the medical problems. Your videos incl. the reviews and explorations are really appreciated. I always double check with them before purchasing materials. Thanks for the library of wonderfully produced videos that can be referenced.
Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm so glad they're helpful.
It took me some research to choose M graham for my first gouache set. And it just feels so different from watercolor. It took a while. I wouldn't use a mijello palette. The color stains the plastic so much. I ended up using my glass palette and using fresh paint like acrylics/oils made it easier. I use my mijello palette for washes. And the paint does get moldy if you try to keep them wet, and I use boiled tap water with hydrogen peroxide. Just letting them dry and rewetting is better. I use a plastic brush to poke and move the gouache to get it creamy again. But once dried, (very subtle) they don't apply as opaque. But it's easier to get watercolor like washes and glazing.
I have also mixed zinc white with some of my QoR to see if the aquazol had an impact in the gouache. It did make it runnier than expected for some nice thin layers.
The titanium won't give you a super white white if you layer on top. I use masking fluid to preserve highlights like snowy mountain peaks.
Take care and no worries.
I forgot to audibly mention it in the video, but yes, that red stains like crazy! Ceramic or glass would be much helpful haha.
I love M. Graham gouache and I use them so much more since I set up a palette of dry gouache with premixed tints. It was so enjoyable to watch you paint this!
Sits down with a cup of tea looking for some relaxing content and a new Denise video is in my feed!!!!
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Beautiful painting, mesmerizing to watch you work. Thank you for your careful, neat, well thought out videos. I’ve learned so much from you and you always inspire me to pick up my brush
Thank you, Rachael! I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and that means a lot to me!
I have been using the Schmincke and M. Graham gouache in conjunction for about two years now and have not looked back since. After getting my first set of the Schmincke I REALLY started to GET what Gouache is about. Between those higher grade brands and the cheaper, chalk filled ones, it's almost like they are two different mediums altogether.
This is my favorite paint brand💕 everything they make, oils, acrlyics, watercolor and gouache are all so lovely and I feel like a classic painter when I use their supplies. I am so happy to see people loving them so much.
They do have those classic vibes!
Hope you feel better soon!
Thank you, Kay!
This was beautifully done. Thanks for sharing your process. Heath and care first- good thoughts for your health journey.
Thank you Julie :)
I loved your rhino ! It’s very bold and shapely , approach gouache however you feel like don’t let anyone take away your experience ! You’re obviously pumping out beautiful work ! Your joy comes first because that’s what makes us enjoy your video seeing the energy you pour into these paintings. Take care of yourself and take all the time you need ! I always find myself going through your old videos so don’t stress yourself out on new content you’ve got plenty amazing content ! You come first ! Take care all the love from Dubai 😁
Thank you for sharing your experience with M. Graham Gouche. I found it to be very helpful.
Calm, smooth brush strokes plus calm music plus calm voiceover. Quite lovely indeed. Thank you. P.S. Use the gauche however you want to! And take care of yourself!
Thank you Arley!
I've watched some of your videos before, but got on a bit of a binge yesterday. Obviously because of the distinct quality of your content, but also to a great extent because of just how calming and beautiful your voice is. Take care of yourself, the community isn't going anywhere.
Yellow + black would be a nice convenience green in your mixes! For muted yellow, I would mix yellow orange and add a touch of blue violet (both colors in between the ones you already have)
My friend is a gouache artist who happens to love watching nature documentaries as a pastime, and one of his favorite species of wild animal is the African wild dog. I'll have to send him a link to this video.
Fun fact: I actually gave him a tube of M. Graham gouache in Cerulean Blue as one of his Christmas gifts one year, as he mentioned that it was one of his favorite colors and that he'd never even heard of M. Graham paints before.
Aww how wholesome and lovely! Thank you so much for sharing.
You can pait light or thick with gouache. Just do what is best for you❤️
Gorgeous! I missed your painting videos the most.
Aw thank you so much Mags! I really appreciate that.
I loved this! As a watercolor artist, I think it was valuable to hear all your thoughts as you worked through the process.
Thank You kindly Denise... I was looking at this set myself this AM and oh, whatta ya know... It's been purchased! Lol!
Haha, excellent timing! I hope you enjoy them :)
For lightfast high quality I'll consider investing more in the future to m.graham as I have been buying and using large tubes of the titanum white gouache (2 fl.oz/59 ml) This allows me to mix my own gouache with watercolours I already own that are pigmented enough such as senellier and dr. ph martens liquid concentrated hydrus (also they are lightfast!)
In fact I just ordered an new tube!
the bargain sets like himi miya have a place too as fun and sheer quantity of paint matters. You will paint and practice more if the supplies are more affordable and that's valuable too! pigment info has recently become available and various artists have been doing lighfastness tests several of the cheap gouache colours are in fact lightfast according to these tests so we can always flag the problem colours. If its a long term concern still we can practice even more with jelly gouache and move to for sale originals to m.graham paint !
All is good to me. I still use non lightfast materials I just am aware of it when/if I do so (such as in sketchbooks ) or when I'm going to scan/photo and not sell the original.
Note So far I have had no issues re-wetting my gouache mixes but haven't done long term tests with the hydrus just with tube watercolours mixed with the white. Spray or eye dropper on some water (preferably distilled) before use. I'd say about 3 minutes and let it sit. Now for bright opaque white and super pale tones use fresh white from the tube. When you require less extreme opacity re-wetting is fine but max opacity is best fresh mixed. I am a cheepo with paint so I tend to save every scrap across various pallets and use almost all up later. I advise looking at pallet mixes and using that to create an artwork idea entirely to 'use up the paint'! This has inspired several great paintings I've made! Anyways have fun everyone!
Also fun video, thanks!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!
Love it. I say paint how you want!
Thanks Miranda!
When I paint with gouache, I just paint and have fun, and I try not to even think about the process. I also like thick gouache! : ))
Sorry to hear that you are challenged again with health problems. I can so relate to that and I really wish you live in which you can cope with it and live in better health and with less worries. Social media should be the least of your worries I think.
This African Wild Dog is gorgeous, as I already remarked on Instagram. You caught it really beautifully. These are such intelligent animals that deserve some intrest.
I never tried gouache before even though I ordered a tiny staterset some time ago. In my eyes you did a great job.
I hope your medical issues resolve soon! This was an interesting painting to watch. Sorta feel you fighting the medium. When I watch you watercolour it feels like it's flowing. Here there was some hesitancy and that's interesting that you not only expressed it in the voice over but also in the edits you chose.
Believe it or not, I actually cut out the more difficult/frustrating bits of footage 😆 thank you for the well wishes!
I love how soft the fur looks on this painting. It’s stunning. 💕
Thank you, Nyki!
thanks, and wishing you continued wellness!
Landscape painting with gouache is so much fun!!! If you ever decide to dabble in landscapes, I highly recommend experimenting with gouache on the subject!!
P.S. I use gouache really thickly as well...don't tell anyone ;)
great looking African Wild Dog 😀 these do look like nice gouache paints, nice vibrant colours
For someone who claims to be uncomfortable with gouache, you seem to do a really good job! 5 of the colors I used to find as useful additions to my gouache palette are: alizarin crimson, a true yellow ochre, burnt sienna, magenta and a vivid green. You do a really good job at creating those earth tones, but you might find it easier to use the more glowing actual earth tone. If you want to see some really fun and interesting gouache techniques, you might want to look at the manuscript illustrations from various cultures, particularly old Persian poetry and/or Indian paintings.
I honestly think this is your best work
I just opened this very set, also not my main medium. The colors are strikingly beautiful! I chose M. Graham for two reasons, I love their watercolors❤️ and, I understand that their gouache can re-wet.
The thing I like about gouache the most is there isn't ONE way to paint with it. When I first learned it in college, I was taught to use it very flatly - using masking film and painting broadly, with just one layer of paint that was only watered to the consistency of heavy cream/melted ice cream.
Then, in a later class, we were taught quite a few more techniques, with my favorite being laying down a texture layer with gesso on illustration board (I think it was a plaster based rather than acrylic based gesso), painting a layer of color over the entire board, then painting a layer of black over that. After all three layers were applied and dried, wet cotton swabs and brushes were used to lift the gouache revealing the color and the white gesso underneath, with the value determined by how much was lifted.
I've only started working with watercolor style layers and glazes within the last year. I painted a series of landscapes for a gallery show where I adapted some Bob Ross style techniques to gouache, using Daniel Smith's black and white watercolor grounds to create an underpainting, then worked from background to foreground, and thin to thick.
Thank you so much for sharing! I love that there are different approaches available to us all :)
Great video, I loved the rhinos you did in the schmincke video. Lena Rivo does her gouache paintings with thick paint and no underpainting, she has great videos about it.
Hope you recover quickly, don't be too hard on yourself and take all the time you need 💕
Thank you Farida!
Ugghh that blue background being painted was so satisfying to watch🤩 You've come a long way with gouache and I think that starting to have fun with the paint instead of worrying about how to paint with it, is the key! So i'm happy that you're starting to feel that way with gouache. Lovely video as always! Hope that everything gets better for you healthwise, we'll be excited whenever you're ready to come back
Peters art Berlin, a shop in Berlin, does sell them.
And yes open stock as well as this set.
So good news for Europeans ^^
I've never had an issue reactivating the Winsor and Newton permanent white gouache in a palette. It also never cracks. It sets up very evenly. With just a bit of water I can get full opacity. It's often so opaque that I have to blend it with a waterbrush to make it look more natural in my animal paintings.
I'm so sorry that you are dealing with additional health challenges, Denise. Sending sincere wishes for a speedy resolution. This painting is so lovely, even if you found it frustrating to create. If only I'd known how good M.Graham gouache was, I would leaned that way when I purchased last year (I ended up getting a very small selection of Holbein and Schmincke, and while the Holbein is fine, I would not buy it again). PS: I received my pouches last month and have filled them with my supplies -- so now every time I grab an art kit pouch, I get to appreciate your beautiful work! It really inspires me to keep trying and learning.
Thank you so much for all the kind words Cassandra! I feel the same way about the Holbein - fine and professional, but not very inspiring. I'm glad that there are lots of options :) I'm so glad you're enjoying the pouches!
You covered every question I had about this paint. The painting showed how skilled an artist you are! Great piece!
Amazing work of art. Sorry to hear you’re not well. Take care. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much!
I recently bought these and thank you for the info I'm a mix media artist i mostly use watercolors but i have tried gouache and i like it. Hope you get better soon.
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed them!
I'm so excited for this video! I have this set too and I don't pull it out nearly enough, I think this painting turned out so wonderfully and I loved the idea of mixing additional colors in the palette wells for convenience. I hope your health stuff stabilizes soon, it must be really hard to feel the pressure of work while dealing with that and I hope you can give yourself space and time needed to heal. I and many others will be here when you return 💜
Thank you, Taylor! I'm so grateful to have the support of all of you when things like this come up. It means a lot.
if you want to travel with the gouache in a dry palette I recmoned to keep a small tube of pernment white in your travel bag.
So beautiful the expression you captured! Please paint more dogs and cats! I will have to watch this again later because I had to watch without volume while I try to file my taxes...sigh.
Thank you. I hope taxes went well!
I wish you slapped down the paint the way you wanted to! I paint primarily with gouache and I am heavy handed and slather on the gouache.. I haven't had a problem with cracking yet. Paint how it feels good. Yeah, this is a review, but if it's not fun then what's the point? Just my thoughts. I am no expert but I paint how I like.. I tend to ignore technique...
No worries! It was educational, and I'm glad to have revisited it. It's a good reminder of how much I enjoy painting with the fresh stuff.
I've been looking at this set for a while, and I'm glad one of my favorite artists is reviewing them! I hope you recover and take some time for yourself. We'll be happy to see you back once you're feeling better 😊
Thank you so much for your kind words Antonella!
I really enjoyed your final painting - i love the fur effect you got! I've seen a few ways with working with gouache, and I've played around with a few, but I always seem to water them down so much I end up using them like watercolors (I just have an Arteza set that I bought for calligraphy work). I probably should just be using more white, but I avoid it out of habit. :P
Wishing you all the best with your recovery
Thanks Amy! I like trying new things, but ultimate you can paint however you like to :)
Stunning painting of a beautiful animal. Thanks for sharing! Hope you get well soon but take all the time you need. Looking forward to whatever you bring us next, whenever that may be.
Thank you, Schuyler! I will have a few more videos scheduled to upload, so hopefully those will keep things interesting here in the meantime :)
Wonderful presentation! Thank you
Oh sorry to hear about your health issues. I too have suffered from health issues off and on in my life. I pray for healing.
your result looks beautiful! But I can totally understand that you would like to paint differently with gouache. I personally love the illustrative look really opaque gouache can have and especially like the colors WITH added white because they can look so "flat" - I know thats not what you said you want, but my point is: there should be no right or wrong in use of these colors, aslong as you have fun!
I think that's exactly why I had a hard time connecting with this process. I've really come to love opaque watercolors, such as certain shades of PR101, etc. but when I grab gouache, I'm looking for a more illustrative, matte look. Thank you for the kind words!
I totally understand what you mean with you wish to paint in thick consitence. I love it 🙈😅 I set up colorful highlight over on my watercolor with it
It's so much fun! :D
Very beautiful work. Good luck in your future endeavors.
I love your little mixes what a good idea 😍
This most recent painting turned out beautifully!
Thank you, Kristi! I am certainly glad it didn't end up looking like struggle 😂
I love the packaging, that cute 🥰
Lovely painting get well soon tfs sylvi
I think I prefer the heavier strokes and stylization of the thickly applied gouache - propriety be damned! I do love the painting you did for this video, though. I might try painting my dog in gouache with that technique. He has black fur with a white nose and I have always struggled to get the correct values to come through on him.
I LOVE the dry brush effect; it makes the fur shine! I haven't tried gouache at this point, but this surely makes me want to try!
First, I hope you feel better soon! I am not super experienced in either gouache or watercolor, although I find both fun. Don’t worry about the gouache police-just use techniques that you enjoy because your art is lovely!
This piece turned out so great! :D Gouache is very fun to work with, though it does take some getting used to. I think the effort you put in to practicing with the medium really shows! Excellent work. Also! Get well soon and get some much needed rest. ^^
Thank you Katie!
I think all the paintings are great.
Hope you feel better soon.
Thank you, Lynn!
lovely! beautiful end result and that pallete arrangement gave me some inspiration too, I'm new to gouache so I learned a lot new stuff too. thanks for sharing your experience!!
Another lovely video, Denise. Thank you so much. And the painting turned out so cool! Does anybody else fondly remember that one guy from the discovery channel commercial who was so super enthousiastic about African Wild Dogs?
As for layering thin to thick, I think it really depends on how many layers you need and what kind of effect you're going for. Starting out relatively thin (but it can still be thicker than watercolour) then moving on to creamier textures should be fine. Especially if you don't mind reactivating the previous layer and/or don't need to work a layer too much.
Good luck with your health. I hope everything gets sorted as well as can be, and that you'll be able to rest and relax when you need it. 🧡
Amazing user name btw :) I'm bummed that I don't remember that commercial! Haha. I absolutely love watching more seasoned gouache painters work thin to thick, I'm just not skilled with that technique. Here's to many more paintings though! I'll eventually work it out :)
I thought this turned out really well! I hope you play around with gouache some more and use them thickly or thinly or both ways. Whichever you feel most comfortable with. Wishing you wellness with the medical issues.
Thank you so much, Diane!
Seeing you create your own convenience mixes was a revelation. I need more empty palettes so I can do the same! :D
This was so much fun to watch, thank you. Loved the final result! Hope you get better soon.
at 16:33 another artist Emily Artful would say F*** em! Do what you want, it's your painting and now one can tell you what to do with YOUR painting! LOL
Haha. I am glad to have had the learning experience, and I'm happy to go back to my old ways with the new information :)
I liked your Rhino! Paint police can paint however they want - you paint however makes sense to you! People need to lighten up and let other people have fun...hope things get better for you health wise! 💜
Thank you Tracy!
Thank you for reviewing this and sharing your experiences with quoache. I'm trying to learn the medium and also how to store and/or use. After trying one method with an assortment of Holbein, I got the same airtight palette that you have. I mixed glycerin with the paint. I also picked up some M. Graham tubes and a second palette. So unsure if I should add glycerin to the M Graham. Any suggestions from you or anyone else would be appreciated.
I honestly haven't used glycerin in my paints since I researched it to make a video so I'm not sure how they'd go for gouache. I'd try it without first and see how it goes before adding anything :)
Thank you for a quick reply AND all your great videos.
Hope your health issues get better.
I’m glad to hear your impressions of this brand of gouache. I have been experimenting with other brands for a bit and have not settled on a favorite. I will give this one a chance. Thanks and good luck with your health issues!
Thank you Jamie! I hope that you enjoy them!
Beautiful work 🌸💞🌸
Yay!! I love your videos, they're so long and educational!! :D
So glad you enjoy them! Thank you for watching.
I’m still learning how to use gouache and I appreciate the tips. The painting came out beautifully. I hope your health issues resolve sooner than later. Take your time and take care.💜
Thank you Beatrice!
Pretty solid gouache! They are my go to for some colors :)
Which brand do you find yourself painting with most often?
Great video. Thanks.
Thank you, Bruce!
I totally get the struggle fighting with gouache. I guess it's bec I'm using student grade supplies. It's so tough to use when you're so familiar with watercolors for so long. I hope you feel better soon💖
How timely, I ordered this set last week. I used to paint with WN Designer Gouache years ago, but switched to watercolor after retirement. Now I want to merge the two as they both have strengths.
I hope you enjoy them Pam!
Thank you for the work you put into your videos, I hope you feel better soon! Take care
Feel better my friend, I will be here when you get back!
Lovely! Hoping to try out gouache soon, your videos always provide such helpful info!